If this poll was unbiased, both Virginia and UNC would be ranked above VT. Sure, VT beat UGA and BC, but with the level of play within MAWLL I'm sure UVA/UNC would have beaten them too, had they had the chance to play. I thought the point of a coaches poll was to actually look deeper into each team and not just factor in "lax power scores." Someone help me understand this...

Did something happen with scheduling with the MAWLL regional tournament? I'm seeing VT showing up on the games to play lists for that tournament on this site, but I thought that they were eliminated from that by UNC during the regular season. It appears from the games on this site that them MAWLL tournament will be 3 Chesapeake teams and 1 DelMarVa team. Surely that can't be correct.

I completely understand the confusion when seeing that three teams from the Chesapeake region will be attending MAWLL's playoffs and only one team from the Delmarva region. As it states in our bylaws, the top two teams from each region get a bid to our Regional tournament. Penn State and Delaware both got bids and Penn State declined their bid. Delaware then moved up to the #1 seed in the Delmarva Region but we decided as an executive committee that because of the strength of our Division 1 teams that it would be more logical to then allow for the next highest ranked team in the division to receive the bid to the regional tournament. It will only make our regional tournament and league stronger. It also allows the teams to play in our playoffs that have a very good shot at getting a bid to the National tournament as well. We have decided to do this with both divisions because we also have many strong Division 2 teams, which is why we originally also have a wild card pick. Rutgers declined their bid so their bid went to High Point. As an executive committee we feel it is very deserving.

jenjperry - I think that is a great idea and am glad that the MAWLL exec team went with it. Definitely makes more sense to give VaTech the shot to get a shot at redemption

mawlllax - no-one ever claimed that the poll is unbiased. by definition a poll is a collection of opinions to use for analysis. By having a representative from each conference the WCLA has tried to reduce some of the regional bias but no poll is perfect. I would also caution the transitive thinking that you use to say that UNC or Virginia would have beaten Georgia and BC if given the chance. 1) These are college athletes aged 18-22 and if we know anything about people that age it is that they are not the most consistent of humans. These athletes have a lot going on in their lives and so emotions and outside factors can and do often play a large part in final results. 2) You need look no farther than your own MAWLL conference to know that the transitive property doesn't work. The weekend of 4/8-9 UNC loses to Virginia, Virginia loses to Delaware, Delaware loses to Penn State, Penn State loses to VaTech, Va Tech loses to Virginia. The parity within the MAWLL is a great thing for the competition of the conference but without them traveling and getting in more games against outside teams for pollsters to put them into the national picture their national rankings suffer. Its not an easy situation to figure out. Would it be awesome if more west coast teams would come east to play? Absolutely. But nobody wants to come east in the early season and deal with cold and its much harder for teams to travel later in the season because of school and classes and all those things.

Yes its an imperfect system but at the end of the day you fight to get to Nationals and then hope that your team is peaking at the right time to make a run. When BC made their run to the finals in 2014 they came in as a #15 or 16 seed!! Come the weekend of nationals its anybodies game so I wouldn't worry too much about the polls. Its about getting a ticket and then seeing who steps up.